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ice rink coach breaths in amonia from leak

All I can say is wow. I know the stuff is dangerous, but did not know it can lead to life disabling injuries.

My question is, do these ammonia alarms respond to ammonia by detecting it in the air? Had she not walks to the back of the rink she would have never been exposed. Shouldn't there be a PA announcement to tell people to move away from the building?

Every chemical (medicines, ammonia, cleaners, propane, etc) affects people differently. ammonia is very dangerous in large quantities....ammonia driven plants in our area have to have state emergency plans for large quantity releases....

I had an employee once that was allergic to propane...........one of the guys took a leaking tank off the fork lift and set it outside.....the wind must have blown it thru the door as the employee was talking to me, then her eyes went blank and I had to catch her before she hit the ground. Then I find out...yes propane does this to me....I'll be alright (after the paramedics came).....

Ammonia is a good cheap refrigerant. Its unrelated but I remember when a truck filled anhydrous ammonia drove off a over pass landing on the road below. Happened in Houston in the 70s.

My mom was a radiologist at a hospital nearby (2 miles) when the ammonia truck fell off the side of the 610 to 59 ramp at 11:18am May 11, 1976 and landed on the main lanes of 59. She remembers the loud speakers telling everyone to shut the windows, doors and turn off the A/C, all ventilation and prepare for victims of a chemical incident.

She said the worst part was when the victims came in and they were "off-gassing" the ammonia in the ER and x-ray rooms and how it was almost impossible to breath.

They found out after the indecent that the truck driver had been told just after hooking up the tank of ammonia to his truck that his wife was going into labor with his first child. So as he and the other victims left, his daughter came into this world. That's a heck of thing for her to have to think about every birthday.

Flip to page 12 it has a picture just minutes after it happened from a tall building nearby showing the immense vapor cloud

My mom was a radiologist at a hospital nearby (2 miles) when the ammonia truck fell off the side of the 610 to 59 ramp at 11:18am May 11, 1976 and landed on the main lanes of 59. She remembers the loud speakers telling everyone to shut the windows, doors and turn off the A/C, all ventilation and prepare for victims of a chemical incident.

She said the worst part was when the victims came in and they were "off-gassing" the ammonia in the ER and x-ray rooms and how it was almost impossible to breath.

They found out after the indecent that the truck driver had been told just after hooking up the tank of ammonia to his truck that his wife was going into labor with his first child. So as he and the other victims left, his daughter came into this world. That's a heck of thing for her to have to think about every birthday.

Flip to page 12 it has a picture just minutes after it happened from a tall building nearby showing the immense vapor cloud